Very true. There is no real reason for a stand alone, in a home, dial up
PC to even have those ports. Not much legitimate home use software needs
UDP and RPC is really dumb for a home user to enable.
Subject: RE: [Dshield] New Microsoft Windows RPC vulnerability
From: "Rick Leske" <rick at jaray.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:21:34 -0500
To: "General DShield Discussion List" <list at dshield.org>
This is way old news.. really.. block 135, 137, 139, 445 ports.. at the
least. One of micro$oft's Totally Stupid things to leave open. Been
blocking them since the 70's
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